Fear and Folly: The Visionary Prints of
Francisco Goya and Federico Castellon

October 11 – December 13, 2019 | Monday – Thursday: 10 A.M. - 6 P.M. | Friday: 10 A.M. - 5 P.M. | Saturday: 10 A.M. - 2 P.M.

Free and open to the public

Francisco Goya, A Way to Fly, ca. 1812-1820, etching and aquatint.
Collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Director’s Fund Purchase.

Federico Castellon, Stop Him and Strip Him I Say, 1968, lithograph.
Collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Director’s Fund Purchase. Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

Though separated by about 150 years, Francisco Goya (1746-1828) and Federico Castellon (1914-1971) often appear closer to one another than to their contemporaries, as they both turned their attention to the human condition. In this exhibition, the artists are represented by important print series from the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts’ permanent collection: Castellon's lithographs for Edgar Allen Poe's The Masque of the Red Death and Goya's etchings from Los Disparates (or The Proverbs).

The Faces of Syrian Refugees
Photographs by Michael S Cohen

January 13 – April 4, 2020 | Monday – Thursday: 10 A.M. - 6 P.M. | Friday: 10 A.M. - 5 P.M. | Saturday: 10 A.M. - 2 P.M.

Free and open to the public

Opening Reception
Friday, January 24, 2020

Gallery Talk at 6:30 p.m. with Lena Albeik, Syrian Immigrant/Teacher

Music by
Finger Food
Featuring Acoustic Guitarists
Steve Davison and Micky Rigby

All photographs copyright Michael S Cohen

Exhibition is organized by
art2art Circulating Exhibitions

Since the Syrian War began in 2011, millions of Syrians have been displaced from their homes and their country. You’ve already seen tragic images of Syrians desperate to get out. What you haven’t seen is what happens next.

After a 25-year hiatus, Michael S Cohen returned to photography with an idea, to travel and meet successfully resettled Syrian refugees, and to photograph and interview them. The exhibit profiles twenty Syrians who fled their war-torn homeland and resettled in new countries in Europe and North America. They have new homes and are building new lives.